1953 A Group

A Group
Season	1953
Champions	Levski Sofia; (8th title)
Matches played	223
Goals scored	484 (2.17 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimitar Minchev; (15 goals)
	← 1952 1954 →

The 1953 A Group was the fifth season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.^[1]

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	28	19	5	4	48	22	+26	43
2	CSKA Sofia	28	18	6	4	64	23	+41	42
3	Cherno More Varna	28	12	7	9	29	20	+9	31
4	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	28	9	13	6	30	29	+1	31
5	Slavia Sofia	28	9	12	7	42	33	+9	30
6	Spartak Pleven	28	9	12	7	29	29	0	30
7	Lokomotiv Sofia	28	10	9	9	30	32	−2	29
8	Minyor Pernik	28	11	6	11	33	35	−2	28
9	Spartak Plovdiv	28	9	9	10	29	29	0	27
10	Akademik Varna (R)	28	9	7	12	26	43	−17	25	Relegation to 1954 B Group
11	Botev Plovdiv (R)	28	8	8	12	29	31	−2	24
12	Spartak Sofia (R)	28	5	14	9	24	34	−10	24
13	Stroitel Sofia (R)	28	5	12	11	22	29	−7	22
14	VVS Sofia (R)	28	6	9	13	26	35	−9	21
15	Marek Dupnitsa (R)	28	3	7	18	23	60	−37	13
–	Unified team of VSO^[a] (R)	13	11	0	2	37	8	+29	0^[b]

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
^ Results annulled

Results

Home \ Away	AVA	BPD	CHM	CSK	LEV	LPL	LSO	MAR	MIN	SLA	SPL	SPD	SSF	STR	VVS
Akademik Varna		0–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	2–2	0–2	3–0^[a]	3–2	2–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–0
Botev Plovdiv	1–1		1–1	0–3	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–0^[a]	1–2	2–2	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	3–0
Cherno More	0–1	2–0		1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	3–2
CSKA Sofia	7–0	2–0	0–0		0–1	5–0	3–1	3–0^[a]	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	7–1	2–2	1–0
Levski Sofia	4–1	0–1	1–0	0–5		5–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–2		0–0	4–3	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	3–1	0–1	2–0	0–4	0–3	2–2		3–0^[a]	0–1	0–5	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
Marek Dupnitsa	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	1–1		1–2	0–3^[a]	2–2	4–1	0–0	1–0	1–3
Minyor Pernik	2–0	1–4	3–2	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	4–1		2–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0
Slavia Sofia	1–1	5–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–3		2–1	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–0
Spartak Pleven	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	0–0		1–1	2–0	3–0	1–0
Spartak Plovdiv	1–0	2–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	1–2	1–1	1–1		1–0	3–0	2–1
Spartak Sofia	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–3	0–0	3–0^[a]	2–0	0–0	2–3	1–1		0–0	1–1
Stroitel Sofia	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–1		0–0
VVS Sofia	1–2	0–0	2–1	3–0	2–3	0–3	2–2	1–0	3–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–2

Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

Champions

Levski Sofia

Goalkeepers
Simeon Kostov	19	0(0)
Dimitar Elenkov	08	0(0)

Defenders
Metodi Angelovski	20	0(0)
Dimitar Dimitrov	01	0(0)
Dimitar Iliev	19	0(0)
Amedeo Kleva	24	0(0)
Dimitar Doychinov	08	0(0)
Ivan Dimchev	23	0(0)

Midfielders
Dragan Georgiev	11	0(1)
Aleksandar Krastev	17	0(0)
Lyubomir Hranov	17	0(3)
Aleksandar Bahchevandzhiev	01	0(0)
Dimitar Kontev	02	0(0)
Ivan Georgiev	14	0(1)
Stefan Abadzhiev	14	0(5)

Forwards
Dimitar Andonov	21	(12)
Arsen Dimitrov	04	0(1)
Vasil Spasov	24	(10)
Todor Stoyanov	04	0(0)
Todor Takev	25	0(6)
Dimitar Popdimitrov	01	0(0)
Georgi Kardashev	06	0(1)
Yordan Tomov	20	0(4)

Manager
	Dimitar Mutafchiev

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Dimitar Minchev	Spartak Pleven VVS Sofia	15
2	Dimitar Andonov	Levski Sofia	12
3	Kiril Nikolov	Marek Dupnitsa	11
4	Vasil Spasov	Levski Sofia	10

References

^ "Сини "старци" крадат злато за червена сметка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 9 September 2012.

External links

Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
1953 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com

[table_note_VSO0.95363853031473-2] "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league

[table_hth_VSO0.95363853031473-3] Results annulled

[table_note_1_CSK_MAR0.38353057549499-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

[1] "Сини "старци" крадат злато за червена сметка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 9 September 2012.

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